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Elevate Learning with Tinkercad and MakerBot in the Classroom!

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Elevate Learning with Tinkercad and MakerBot in the Classroom!

Taken from Makerbot. BY JESSICA ADAMS Your imagination has a home in Tinkercad. This 3D world of fun shapes and colors allows you to create and print whatever you want– it’s all up to you. Tinkercad makes it easy for students to design accurate 3D models, whether they’re starting from scratch with their own ideas, browsing through Tinkercad’s community designs, or importing a model from Thingiverse. Dedicated to your students’ success, MakerBot provides these 3D printing resources to enhance STEAM learning and elevate creativity in your classroom. After learning Tinkercad’s fundamentals, invite students to show you what they’ve learned with...

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Stratasys opens MakerBot Innovation Centre in Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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Taken from MIS Asia Adrian M. Reodique Stratasys Asia Pacific - a subsidiary of 3D printing and additive manufacturing solutions company Stratasys Ltd. - has established its MakerBot Innovation Centre at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). The centre is a large-scale 3D printing installation - with large clusters of MakerBot 3D printers - designed to help students, faculty and staff members learn about 3D printing, entrepreneurship, and innovation. "We are excited to see the first MakerBot Innovation Centre in Asia at PolyU, offering their students an advantage in the job market after graduation. Reports indicate that learning from trials, working collaboratively...

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Check out the Raise3D N2 printing live on our UStream channel

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Check out the Raise3D N2 printing live on our UStream channel

Live 3D printing with the Raise3D N2 Our Raise3D N2 3D printer is LIVE NOW on UStream, so come and check it out! Click here to view the live stream. We're regularly running test prints for customers using their design files on the N2. Some jobs are single extruder, and some are dual.  If you have a print sample you'd be interested in seeing run on the Raise3D N2, let us know.

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Zortrax Makes an Appearance on the Catwalk in the 3D Printed Fashion of Irina Tosheva

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Taken from 3D Print by Clare Scott To say that Macedonian fashion designerIrina Tosheva‘s work is eye-catching would be an understatement. She works in brilliant colors and bold prints, and several of her pieces appear to have been painted. Tosheva, who graduated from the Accademia Italiana in Florence, Italy, has had twelve fashion shows to her name, and a recent showcase of spring and summer trends for 2016 revealed that she’s not afraid to experiment with technology, particularly 3D printing. The fashion show, which took place in Prishtina, the capital of Kosovo, displayed Tosheva’s new Riza collection, a melding of modern design and...

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3D-Printed Mars Rover Design Inspired by Students

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Taken from Design News. Ann R. Thryft, Senior Technical Editor, Materials & Assembly A student engineering team from Poland's Warsaw University of Technology is using 3D-printed plastic parts in its Mars rover designs. The rovers are entered in an annual Mars rover student challenge, and the parts are built on a desktop 3D printer.     The Warsaw University of Technology's Students' Space Association designed and built its Ares 2 Mars rover using 3D printing, which helped reduce its weight for entry in the Mars Society's 2015 University Rover Challenge contest. The students' rover placed 8th. (Source: Students' Space Association/Warsaw...

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